Browsing All Posts published on »November, 2014«

The wind doesn’t know which way to blow, says ‘guide me’ to the trees, but even they won’t listen. Even they feel hollow inside sometimes. Even they have their pasts carved into their trunks, every struggle written on their skin, but they forget. This is a disaster. The wind doesn’t know which way to go. […]

When I came back, my home was nearly ashen. When homes burn down, humans grab their belongings and flee. To the nearest hide out, the nearest exit. They run, forgetting nights they were warmed beneath that very roof. They grab their shovels in a hurry and bury all that is relevant to the existence of […]

Sunrise of every night a fulfilling light stubborn enough; reaching into houses behind hills behind mountains, running along the surface of the crystal water of separation build your sky within me, talk to me with the heavy eyelid. I lay on my back to speak to you with open palms. I have celebrated you in public, in secret; […]

I see my years engrave themselves into lines on your palms; I’m stretched thin but your eyes only see delicacy. You hold your hands, and me, close to your chest, with urgency you think I wouldn’t feel, but I’m too close to home to turn a deaf ear. Your fire rumbles within, I listen, and […]

Maybe promises are useless now. How many promises I gave myself and never stuck to? Countless. For the sake of others over mine. Those promises that may never actually mater by time. How many times I promised myself to put myself first, to love myself the most, to care about my life and my needs […]

We were lost souls colliding. We were lost souls that have found what we were too busy to search for. Under the night’s sky we were souls colliding nostalgic for one another, but have just met. Our hearts synced, our hearts were beating in harmony. I recognized the loneliness in their eyes. It was within […]

You gave me the sweetest winter, the warmest hours during the coldest days. Now, two years later, winters are lit with the solitude I carefully wrapped myself in. It’s actually nice here, I’m warm yet cold. The breeze comes and goes, while gently breathing into my hazed eyes, during those really long nights. How odd […]